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June 2016

MISSOULA, Mont. — Gov. Steve Bullock has ordered all flags in Montana to be flown at half-staff Monday to honor one of the last members of the Doolittle Raiders, the airmen who helped change the course of World War II.

Retired Staff Sgt. David Jonathan Thatcher died earlier this month in Missoula at age 94.

Thatcher was one of 80 airmen whose mission bombing factory areas and military installations in Japan in 1942 lifted American spirits five months after Pearl Harbor.

DRUMMOND, Mont. — Montana transportation officials are working to solve a decades-old problem on elk in Interstate 90 in Granite County.

The Missoulian reports (http://bit.ly/28YIOqp ) that the Montana Department of Transportation is considering a $1.5 million fencing project to funnel roaming elk under the interstate at existing underpasses in the eight-mile stretch between Drummond and Jens.

BUTTE, Mont.— A 38-year-old man has died in a kayaking accident at Storm Lake near Anaconda in southwest Montana.

The Montana Standard reports (http://bit.ly/28VKFsE ) that the victim's name has not been released, pending notification of family.

Anaconda-Deer Lodge Assistant Police Chief Bill Sather says a man who was camping with friends drowned in the incident on Saturday. Sather says he and another man were paddling on the lake when a gust of wind overturned their kayaks.

I am writing in response to the Thursday guest editorial from the St. Louis Post Dispatch regarding toxic stress. Just what is toxic stress?

Stress is a reaction to challenges in our lives; it is not all bad as it causes us to grow. The amygdala, is the small almond shaped neuron structure in our brain “responsible for autonomic responses associated with fear and fear conditioning. It processes many of our emotions.”